Parts of the body in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island

This paper describes the terminology used to describe parts of the body in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island (Papua New Guinea). The terms are nouns, which display complex patterns of suppletion in possessive and locative uses. Many of the terms are compounds, many unanalysable. Semant...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Language sciences (Oxford) 2006-03, Vol.28 (2), p.221-240
1. Verfasser:	Levinson, Stephen C.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Body part terms Meronymy Papuan languages Partonomy Semantic fields Taboo vocabularies Yélî Dnye
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